Wasn't part of the issue with Stallman that his behavior, not just his ideas, were problematic. Like telling a college freshman that he'd kill himself if she didn't go out with him: https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...
Readit NewsApicalDendrite commented on Cancel We The Web? (2020) wetheweb.org/post/cancel-... · Posted by u/r3856283
I interviewed there a couple of years ago. I was really excited going into the interview because I'm a big fan of Atul Gawande and I thought there was huge potential for a transformative impact. But when I talked to them it was clear that they didn't have a clear vision of how specifically they were going to transform healthcare. I got the sense that the engineers were just messing around waiting for the healthcare and product people to tell them what to build. They clearly had a lot of talent and resources and I'm sad they weren't able to make it work.
ApicalDendrite commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
Based on this I'm still not sure if she actually wrote the piece or just published it (as her bio lists her as a co-founder of the site.)
Based on this tweet, I believe she was the interviewer: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341423429958979593
ApicalDendrite commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
> The writer is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, which is an organization I have tremendous respect for, so it's really a shame that they were naive enough to publish this.
I don't see a writer listed. What am I missing?
(Disclosure -- I'm a BKC fellow this year)
I initially saw the link on her twitter feed: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341414901143777280
ApicalDendrite commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
Giving the benefit of the doubt, he sounds like an experienced senior guy so he's surely plugged in to internal communications, discussions, and rumors. And a lot of times in security there are opportunities to work with a large cross-section of teams.
I've worked with engineers at Amazon up to the senior principal level. Even if you grant that people in cybersecurity see a broader swath of the company, there's just no way that he can talk authoritatively about everything from AWS sales tactics, to hiring practices for former DoD procurement people, to real estate strategy to Amazon's own supply chain, to Jeff B.'s personal life. It would be like a mid-level employee at State Department talking about how the Trump administration views farm policy, and what the National Park Service is planning, and what types of cool things the US Mint is cooking up. That State Department guy might have heard about a lot of those things either from reading the news or from talking to buddies, but he wouldn't come within a mile of it as part of his job.
ApicalDendrite commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
There's a massive off vibe for me in things like
> So if you have cancer and you might die from your cancer, we won't help you get treatment
It just feels.. off. I wouldn't go as far to say the person doesn't work at Amazon at all and instead wants to jab at them but I'm definitely thinking it loudly
To me it feels like someone was kind of bullshitting with their friends and maybe making themselves seem more knowledgeable and important than they really are. It's totally irresponsible to put it in print.
ApicalDendrite commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
This person is very clearly mixing things that he knows directly, things that he's read about in books (e.g. Amazon's strategy in the early days), and rumors that he's heard (e.g. Jeff Bezos' personal life). There's no way that a cybersecurity engineer at a company as sprawling as Amazon has reliable firsthand knowledge on so many different unrelated topics.
The writer is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, which is an organization I have tremendous respect for, so it's really a shame that they were naive enough to publish this.
Here in Germany we had a few cases where persons worked as hospital doctors for a few years without a license or diploma or even any medical training. They usually submitted a fake license to the hospital. There was a spectacular case in the 1990s where a former postal employee named himself "Dr. med. Dr. phil. Clemens Bartholdy" and later worked as a senior physician in a psychiatric hospital, also giving lectures [0]
> By chance, a co-worker recognised him on July 10, 1997, forcing him to go into hiding. At that time, an appointment was already set for an interview with Hans Geisler, then Saxony's Minister of State for social affairs, health and family, on the occasion of Postel's appointment to a professorship and to the position of chief of medicine at Saxony's hospital for psychiatry and neurology at Arnsdorf near Dresden.
In another case, a former barber worked for 20 years as a doctor, eventually becoming chief physician in a children's hospital [1].
Back in the 2000s there was a case of a medical student who failed her final exams 3 times, and instead of leaving university as she had to, she just continued her studies without the possibility to take any exams. After a few years, she printed a fake license and a fake diploma and secured a job as an assistance doctor in the children's hospital of the Hamburg University Hospital, eventually becoming a respected colleague (she was, after all, actually trained to be a doctor). After a few years, she failed to hand in the original license and her fraud came to light [2].
Last year, a fake anesthesiologist was uncovered in Fritzlar. She had no formal training and had handed in a fake diploma to get the job [3]. No one noticed until last year, at which time she had already accidentally killed 4 people.
Given that there are several such cases each year, chances are very high that there are still some fake doctors practising here.
We also had the famous Captain of Köpenick [4], an ex-convict who in 1906 put on a uniform, rounded up a few soliders, occupied a city hall in Berlin, arrested several employees, had them transported to the main Berlin police station for interrogation, ordered to block all local telephone calls for an hour, confiscated 4000 marks and disappeared. It took 10 days to arrest him.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel
[1] https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Panorama/Hochstapler-im-weissen...
[2] https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article1142757/Falsche-Kinder...
[3] https://www.fr.de/hessen/hessen-drei-falsche-aerzte-einem-ja...
Ferdinand Demara impersonated a surgeon on a Canadian naval ship during the Korean War. He performed a number of successful surgeries and was only caught because of a newspaper article about how he had successfully removed a bullet from a wounded soldier.
The humans spent their time building a hideously difficult classification model. Out of the box GPT-3 worked better than the result of a year of their work.
Were there any concerns about GPT-3's latency? It looks like it takes a long time for online use cases.